English

Adjective

fade ‎(comparative fader or more fade, superlative fadest or most fade)

1. (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty

Etymology 2

From Middle English fade, vad, vade ‎(“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade ‎(“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade ‎(“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus ‎(“insipid”).

Adjective

fade ‎(comparative fader, superlative fadest)

1. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
   • Jeffery

     Passages that are somewhat fade.

   • De Quincey

     His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.

Translations

Noun

fade ‎(plural fades)

1. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
2. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
3. (slang) A fight
4. (cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot (as a means of cutting to a new scene)

Translations

Verb

fade ‎(third-person singular simple present fades, present participle fading, simple past and past participle faded)

1. (intransitive) To become faded; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
   • Bible, Is. xxiv. 4

     The earth mourneth and fadeth away.

2. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
   • Milton

     flowers that never fade

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:

     The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

3. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

   The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.

   • Addison

     The stars shall fade away.

   • Shakespeare

     He makes a swanlike end, / Fading in music.

   • 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.

4. (transitive) To cause to fade.
5. (transitive, gambling) To bet against.

Synonyms

• (become faded): weaken, wither
• (lose freshness, color, or brightness): blanch, bleach
• (sink away): decrease, diminish, wane

Translations

Anagrams

• deaf, Deaf
• EDFA

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aðə

Adjective

fade

1. definite of fad
2. plural of fad

Noun

fade n

1. plural indefinite of fad

Finnish

Etymology

< Swedish fader ‎(“father”)

Noun

fade

1. (slang) father

Declension

Synonyms

• isä (standard)

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fatidus, blend of Latin fatuus and vapidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fad/

Adjective

fade m, f ‎(plural fades)

1. tasteless, insipid
2. boring; lukewarm

Synonyms

• (lacking in interesting features): terne, insignifiant

Noun

fade m ‎(plural fades)

1. share of loot / booty

Verb

fade

1. first-person singular present indicative of fader
2. third-person singular present indicative of fader
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fader
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of fader
5. second-person singular imperative of fader

German

Alternative forms

• fad (particularly in southern Germany and Austria)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaːdə/
• Homophone: Pfade (only according to a regional pronunciation of this word)
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Adjective

fade ‎(comparative fader, superlative am fadesten or am fadsten)

1. fade
   • 1922, Rudolf Steiner, Nationalökonomischer Kurs, Erster Vortrag

     Solch eine Volkswirtschaftslehre würde der Engländer fade gefunden haben. Man denkt doch über solche Dinge nicht nach, würde er gesagt haben.

     An Englishman would have thought of such an economical theory as bland. He would have said, "One doesn’t think about such things."

Declension